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0 pointsbreck6y ago0 comments

Thanks for the feedback! I did not expect that confusion. I just made an update (and will push shortly) to be more explicit that it scales for collaborative knowledge bases. But I'm not talking about something like real time transactional DBs, etc.

I have not used TreeBase for anything other than collaborative knowledge bases. Haven't even thought much beyond that. Thanks for letting me know that wasn't clear.

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krapht6y ago· 2 in thread

There's nothing special about collaborative knowledge bases that make them immune from scaling problems. You can't use TreeNotation to run Wikipedia. Fundamentally it isn't a database, period. It's a schema for files in a file system.

breckOP6y ago

> Fundamentally it isn't a database, period. It's a schema for files in a file system.

This is false. It is both.

A database is merely an application that provides an interface to structured data on disk.

I know a thing or two about databases, having contributed to a few of the larger open source ones.

There's a lot more to TreeBase than is on the website right now. As the website says "We have been using TreeBase for over 2 years in systems with millions of rows and dozens of collaborators." For all you know, you may have actually used a website that is powered by TreeBase (well, a TreeBase application written in a different host language, but the file system semantics are the same).

rufugee6y ago

Not sure why you're getting negativity. Though I haven't gone back and reviewed your past comments, I don't see any harm in mentioning it here... It seems somewhat on topic and looks interesting for certain use cases.

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